Sheet-metal toy.



E. KESSLER.

SHEET METAL TOY,

APPLICATION FILED APR. 17, 1915.

1,186,005. Patented June 6,1916.

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UNITED STATES PATENT o FIo EMIL K'ESSLER, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK,ASSIGNOR TO NONPAR-EIL TOY & NOVELTY (10., INCL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ACORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

SHEET-METAL TOY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

' Patented June 6, 1916.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, EMIL KEssLnR, a citizenof the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings andState of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inSheet-Metal Toys, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a toy, particularly of the sort which mayreadily be manufactured from sheet metal and which includes a drivingelement and a driven element.

One of the objects of the invention is to provide a device of the kinddescribed in which the driving and driven elements may be stamped outfrom sheet metal, producing an article which may be sold for a low priceand which will be efficient in operation.

Other objects and aims of the invention, more or less broad than thosestated above, together with the advantages inherent, will be in partobvious and in part specifically referred to in the course of thefollowing description of the elements, combinations, arrangements ofparts, and applications of principles constituting the invention; andthe scope of protection contemplated will appear from the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, which are to be taken as a part of thisspecification, and in which I have shown a merely preferred form ofembodiment of the invention, Figure 1 is an elevation of a toy horse andvehicle, the latter being constructed in accordance with the invention;Fig. 2 is a plan View partially in perspective of the vehicle properwith parts removed; Fig. 3 is a perspective View of the driven element,and Fig. 4 is a vertical sectional View with parts in elevation,illustrating a modification.

Referring to the numerals on the drawlugs and particularly to Figs. 1, 2and 3,

there is shown at 5 an axle, on which are mounted traction wheels 6.Pivotally secured upon the axle 5 as by means of the lugs 7, there is abed plate 8, which may be of sheet metal and which carries an upstandingtubular post 9. On the upper face of the bed plate 8 there is provided acircular rib shown at 8', the purpose of which will be later described.The axle 5 is a live axle, and it is provided with a pinion 10 which maybe stamped out of sheet metal, and the said pinion projects through anaperture 11 cut in the base plate 8. If desired, the representation of ahorse or the like may be provided, as indicated at 12, said efiigy beingsecured to the bed plate 8 as by means of connecting rods 14. 15indicates the driven member of the toy, which, as shown in Fig. 3,comprises a disk 16 having a circular rack 17 punched out of it andadapted to cooperate with the teeth of the pinion 10 projecting throughthe aperture 11 of the bed plate 8. The disk 16 is centrally apertured,and projecting upwardly from the disk 16, above the central aperturethereof is a tube 18, which may carry at its upper end a representationof a canopy or umbrella 19. The disk 16 is supported in spaced relationabove the bed plate 8 by the circular rib 8 as seen in Fig. 1. Thisarrangement tends to lessen the friction of the disk when the same isset in motion. The disk 16 may further be provided, as shown in Fig. 1,with sheet metal representations of horses or the like 20. In use, thedisk 16 is placed over the bed plate 8, with the post 9 entered into thetube 18, and with the projecting teeth of the pinion 10 engaging in thecut-out rack 17, the re-.

sult is that when the traction wheels 6 are caused to rotate, the disk16 will be correspondingly rotated, carrying the canopy 19 and figures20 with it, thus providing an animated toy.

In the form shown in Fig. 4, there is shown a toy intended forstationary use. In that figure there is shown a box 21 in which ismounted a shaft 22, which is operated by means of a crank 23. The shaft22 carries a pinion 10, which projects through an aperture in the top ofthe box. Projecting from the top of the box there is a tubular post 9,and there is also a disk 16 pro vided with a circular rack similar tothe rack 17 shown in Fig. 3. This disk 16 has a central upstanding tube18, having at its upper end a canopy or umbrella 19, and this tube setsover the tubular post 9. It will be evident that when the crank 23 isturned, the rotation of the pinion 10 will cause rotation of the disk16, tube 18, and canopy or umbrella 19, as already described withreference to Fig. 1. The disk 16 in this form of the device may beprovided with figures 20 or the like if desired.

Inasmuch as many changes could be made in the above construction, andmany apparently widely different embodiments of my invention could bemade Without departing from the scope thereof, it is intended that allmatter contained in the above description or shown in the accompanyingdrawings shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limitingsense.

It is also to be understood that the lan guage used in the followingclaims is intended to cover all the generic and specific features of theinvention herein described and all statements of the scope of the invention which, as a matter of language, might be said to fall therebetween.

I claim:

1. In a device of the kind described, an axle, a bed plate securedthereto and having a central post upstanding therefrom, said bed platebeing provided with an aperture, a pinion on the axle projecting throughsuch aperture, and a disk member rotatably supported on the post andhaving a cut-out circular rack engaging with the pinion.

2. In a device of the kind described, a driving element including anaxle, a bed plate above the axle, having an opening therein, a pinionmounted on the axle, and projecting through said opening, a disk member,and means arranged on the bed plate for supporting said disk, said platehaving a circular cutout rack therein engaging with said pinion.

3. In adevice of the kind described, a driving element including anaxle, a bed plate above the axle, having an opening therein, a pinionmounted on the axle, and projecting through said opening, a disk memberpivotally supported on the bed plate and means arranged on the bed platebeneath said disk member to space the same from said bed plate, said bedplate having a circular cutout rack therein engaging with said pinion.

4. In a device of the kind described, a driving element including anaxle, a bed plate above the axle, having an opening therein, a pinionmounted on the axle, and projecting through said opening, a disk memberpivotally supported on the bed plate and a circular rib arranged on thebed plate beneath said disk member to space the same from said bedplate, said plate having a circular cutout rack therein engaging withsaid pinion.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

EMIL KESSLER.

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